cutting up a post

[David Gerard]

2009/10/25 Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net>:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Douglas Pollard wrote:

>>    Been reading the fcc Internet thread as it has evolved and have
>> noticed a trend.   A person goes to the trouble to write a half page
>> post that is interdependent on ever statement and line in its make up to
>> make a point.   Then someone else chops it into individual lines or
>> statement and writes a scathing comment on each part of it.  This is
>> only a method to discredit the writer.   It is not a comment on the

> I can't tell if you are unhappy with interleaved replies or their
> content. If it's interleaved replies you object to, be aware that it's
> one of the email standards.


Indeed. I don't think there's an RFC on it, but interleaved replies -
quote a bit, answer it, quote the next bit - have been usual practice
in email and on Usenet since before everyone on email was actually on
the Internet, back in UUCP days - back to the seventies at least.


- d.